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TIFU By Visiting The Church of Scientology

Me and my Dad went to London for a holiday and we had some time to kill so we decided to walk around the city. We saw a sign outside some building that said "Free personally test inside" and it looked nice and sincs we had some time on our hands, we decide to walk inside, without looking at the name of the building or anything like that (mistake number 1).

Once we're inside, we're greeted with an extremely beautiful and flush interior. We ask the receptionist about the personality test and he tells us one of his colleagues will come down soon to test us and he gives us a form to fill out. He also tells us we don't have to fill out what we don't want to which is weird. This form had some personal info on it which I thought was a huge red flag (Things like address, full name, phone number) I decided to only fill out my age and name but my Dad filled out his E-mail as well (mistake number 2) .The form also had some weird questions on it. One of the sections was about what you want to achieve most in life and it was written like a multiple choice. You could pick things like happy family, successful career, long lasting marriage, stress management basically anything that a normal person would want.

This is when my Dad points out the massive text at the top of the form that reads "Church of Scientology London" my Dad doesn't really like religious things or church in general and he thought it was just some sort of scientific analysis. We talk about this a little bit without the receptionist hearing us and decide to bail. However, we spend too long discussing and the receptionists colleague arrives to test us. My Dad walks to the receptionist and gives him the forms (mistake number 3) and makes up some BS excuse about how he doesn't like church and religion and whatnot. They seriously try to convince us to stay and tell us how they are only technically a church or whatever. We manage to stay stern and get out without much hassle.

I know this isn't really as bad as the other things you see on this sub, but I hope it makes you laugh because I found it really funny in the moment.

TL/DR: Went to London for a holiday, almost got indoctrinated into the 'Church of Scientology'

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